Is Texas a winner winner chicken dinner? Louisville, Kentucky, mayor disappointed that chain “synonymous with Kentucky” will move to Lone Star State.

Kentucky is losing a piece of its identity as Kentucky Fried Chicken, known these days as just KFC, decamps to Texas nearly a century after its founder began serving his childhood favorite at a

Texas Fried Chicken? KFC is relocating its headquarters from Kentucky to join Pizza Hut in Dallas suburb of Plano, TX.

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The nation's best-known fried chicken chain is leaving its old Kentucky home for new digs in the Lone Star State.

KFC started in a motel in a small town in Kentucky 95 years ago and continued its operations in the Bluegrass State. It was Kentucky Fried Chicken until it was rebranded as KFC in the 1990s and had been headquartered in Louisville since 1997, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Brands announced it is relocating the company headquarters from Louisville to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano, Tex. In addition, U.S.-based remote employees will be asked to relocate to the campus where their work happens. Yum!

While Kentucky is in the name, the fast food chain known as KFC is moving to Texas. According to ... Kentucky, to Plano, where the group’s Pizza Hut chain is headquartered.